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It appears that Singaporean-organised “shopping tours” to Johor, in conjunction with Chinese New Year, are seeing a lot of last-minute cancellations as situation between two countries tense up over a maritime and airspace dispute, reported Sin Chew daily. Community groups in the Lion City often run yearly Chinese New Year shopping trips for Singaporeans to make use of the cheaper …

Changi Airport is deemed as the best airport in the world with top-class facilities for flyers. Unfortunately, a user by the name Joseph Chia didn’t have the best experience at the airport when he was flying back from Sapporo to Singapore on 28 December 2018. Chia wrote in Changi Airport’s Facebook page on 8 January his ordeal at the airport, …

On 9 January, Grab launched number masking feature for GrabHitch as part of the e-hailing app’s Safer Everyday campaign. This feature hides the actual mobile number and shows a virtual number instead during SMS/call for both drivers and riders. After a week of launching this feature, many Grab drivers poured their unhappiness over this on social media. As such, a …

In response to SingPost’s public apology over their shortcomings in recent months, regular finance commentator and retired banker Chris Kuan questioned their excuse of saying “peak season” is the reason why they have been slacking in their service. Releasing a statement on their Facebook page yesterday (14 January), SingPost revealed that the November-December peak season was extremely busy for them …

Singapore’s Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan warns countries dealing with the Republic to not take Singapore’s consistency, and some would say predictability, for granted. “We will always take appropriate measures to safeguard our interests. And any country dealing with Singapore must assume that it is cost-free to embark on any adventures or antics against us. There will be consequences,” he said. …

The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said on Monday (14 January) that the food and beverage behind famous restaurant chain Penang Culture has been fined S$94,500 for falsely declaring salaries in work pass applications. On 27 December 2018, GD Group was convicted of seven charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, with another 13 taken into consideration during sentencing. In …

It has not been a good time for Singapore Post (SingPost). The mail company has been receiving plenty of attention from the public, but for all the wrong reasons. Yesterday we ran a story on how the company apologised to a business man after attempting to cover up their failure to deliver his flyers after the man paid S$7, 000 …

Singapore Post (SingPost) is back in the limelight for another bad publicity when its staff was caught red-handed trying to dupe a small business owner, who had paid S$7, 000 for flyer distribution, and was informed that his flyers were distributed, but in reality it wasn’t. Johnson Tan, a massage parlour owner, had engaged a service from SingPost that prints …

The second summit between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is set to happen soon and Singapore is one of the shortlisted venues, along with Vietnam. On Sunday, Trump revealed that the US is already ‘negotiating a location’ for the summit which he expects will take place early this year. To make things convenient, …

Ang Mo Kio GRC Member of Parliament Darryl David recently shared in a radio show by MONEY FM 89.3 that he hasn’t encountered any couple citing high cost as a deterrent to starting a family and having children. This was part of REACH and the Ministry of Finance's Pre-Budget Feedback Exercise on Budget themes such as caring for the vulnerable, …

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